London

At London's 15 month check up back on Jan. 26th, Dr. John asked how many words she can say.  I thought about it and as I tried to quickly tally them up in my head, I realized she knows too many to count!  I told him that and he asked how many real words she can say.  I said if I had to guess I would say 20 or more but she'll also repeat just about anything you ask her to.  Her teachers told me she can talk better than most of the kids in the toddler class!  I'm going to try to think of all of her words right now and see how close I was:

Dada,  Mama,  Gigi,  Papa,  Bubba or Son (Hudson),  She knows all of her friends names at school, Thank You,  Peek-a-boo,  Uh-oh (spaghetti-o's),   Baby,  Sorry,  Hi,  Hello,  Bye-bye,  More,  Bath,  Help,  Up,  Milk,  Cracker, Paci,  Bubble,  Kitty,  Duck,  Fish, Ladybug, All done,  Hot,  Clap,  Poo-poo (she sometimes tells us when she goes), Apple,  Banana,  Eye,  Ear,  Nose,  Teeth,  Mouth,  Hair, Belly Button,  Shoes,  Socks,  Ball,  Book,  No, Yah,  Yay,  Pretty,  Silly,  Yummy (she says 'Me!'), eewwww (not sure if that's really a word but she uses it correctly),  Cheese (when taking a picture),  Help, Good morning,  Excuse me, What's that?, Knock Knock,  Outside,  Amen!...I'm sure there are lots more that I'll have to add to this list as I think of them. 

She also knows the following signs:

more,  all done, milk, hungry, hot, bath, help, thank you/you're welcome, fish, elephant, Ball, Book, no/yes

She can make the following animal sounds:

cat (meow), dog (woof, woof), monkey (ooo, ooo), elephant (brrrrrr, while raising her arm like a trunk), lion (growl), snake (ssssss), rooster (cock-a-doodle-doo), Bee (bzzzz), pig (oink oink), cow (moo)

She sings/signs parts of the following songs:

Itsy Bitsy Spider, Patty Cake, Row Your Boat and she sings back-up to Jason's Huddy Buddy song, and she can say a lot of the Primrose Prayer



She has been working on getting some new teeth since the beginning of January.  One of her top teeth next to the top right front tooth has officially broken through.  She has a molar, the top left tooth, and a bottom tooth that are about to break through as well.  She has lots of others that are right behind them so I know the poor, sweet girl has to be in lots of pain.


This little girl is a sponge and watches Hudson very intently.  She snached his spoon before I put her in her chair and she refused to give it back.  She decided it was time for her to stop using her fingers to eat and to start using utensils.  She was very messy but very determined and somehow manged to get the job done!

Jason’s 36th Birthday

 January 26th was Jason's 36th birthday! We had fun decorating with some balloons before he woke up! 



 Hudson was very excited to give him his gift: new cologne.  However, London turned out to be Jason's favorite person of the day when she discovered an uncashed check (which she had taken a bite out of) and helped him decide to splurge for a new iPad.  So we returned his cologne since he wasn't especially fond of it (and would have rather had an iPad) and we headed to the mall.


We grabbed some lunch at the food court and went for a ride on the carrousel!  Then I took the kids to play in the play area while Jason bought his iPad.


After our shopping venture, we went home and ate some ice cream cake from Cold Stone!  It was sooooo yummy!!  It was layered with birthday cake ice cream and red velvet cake...mmmmmm!  Jason isn't a big fan of birthday cake but he does like ice cream cake!


Hudson always makes sure we are wearing our party hats for every special occasion!!

Happy Birthday Jason!!!

The Best Big Brother EVER

Hudson truly is the best big brother ever!!  He takes such good care of London.  He watches out for her to make sure she is always safe.  He reads to her and sings to her.  He shares everything with her: toys, food, whatever!  He knows I always cut up her grapes before giving them to her so if he is eating some, he'll take a big bite and give her what is left so she won't choke on it and he can still share it.  However, she has become almost like a little puppy dog to him and comes up to him signing and saying "more, more!".  He is always good to ask if it is okay for her to eat something before sharing it with her.  He loves to try and teach her new words or how to do new things.  If her teeth are hurting, he will run to the freezer and get her teething rings out.  He likes to help change her diapers and put lotion on her.  He always tells her he loves her and gives her lots of kisses and hugs.  And she is exactly the same way with him. 

Hudson loves London so much that he told me he wanted another baby!  On the way home the other day, he told me he wants to have 2 babies.  However, he told me he wants the next baby to be a boy and he wants to name him Horsey Tree Horse!!  And I thought Hudson and London were unique names! : ) 

We are seriously blessed to have two amazingly sweet children!!  

Magnolia & Caleb’s Birthday Party

 On Jan. 16th, we went to Magnolia & Caleb's Dr. Seuss themed birthday party! 

Here is the birthday girl (I had to catch her on the run b/c she was busy having lots of fun!):



And here is the birthday boy (aka London's boyfriend--they are only 6 wks apart), he LOVED his cupcake!!! 

 Hudson and London also enjoyed some of the delicious birthday cupcakes!

And London and Caleb enjoyed some time hanging out and playing with the fridge magnets:

London absolutely loved the green balloon she and Hudson got to take home and of couse Hudson enjoyed his juice box:

Bath Time!

London and Hudson love taking baths together.  London will grab the wash cloth and wash off Hudson's back, grab the rinsing bucket and rinse him off, then give him little love pats.  She knows the routine: each night as soon as she's done eating she will say "bath" and give me the sign for bath.  She has also learned to say bubble and loves to play in the bath bubbles with Hudson.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve...the long wait for Santa to visit is almost over!!  boo.  I am always so sad when the Christmas season is over.  It is such a fun, cheerful time of year! 

I caught Hudson in imagination land having a good chat with Santa:

 A few of these pictures are pre-Christmas Eve...Hudson took a picture of us so we could use it for our Christmas cards.  I am always the picture taker so we never have pictures of us together! 



Here is Hudson hanging the candy canes on the tree:

 And here is London swiping them off!!

 We had a yummy Christmas Eve dinner.  The power kept going off so we ended up enjoying a lovely candle light dinner!  We were actually kind of sad when the power came back on because it was so nice just having the candle light. 

 Here is Hudson putting out his cookies and milk for Santa!!

 Here is the same plate after Santa enjoyed his cookies and milk!  Isn't this plate cute?!?  Both Hudson and London got to make them as a fundraiser at their school.  I didn't get London's back until after Christmas so we'll get to use hers next year!

Christmas Day!

It is almost Valentine's Day (by the way, I hope everyone is staying warm in all of the snow storms out there!) and I am finally getting around to posting our pictures from Christmas!  I am actually at work, on my lunch hour and these are the pictures I uploaded to my work computer a long time ago.  I'm sure I have lots more to go through at home or on my camera so I'm sure there will be more Christmas time posts in the near future.

Here is a picture of our tree after Santa visited!  (Emily, just so you know, we did not re-gift the wagon you gave Hudson!  It was already by the tree from being played with throughout the day so Santa filled it with gifts!)

Hudson really wanted to leave Santa and his Elves a gift since they were nice enough to bring him gifts.  He colored them a picture and we wrapped it up!  Here is Santa's 'thank you' letter for his gifts.

 Time to open presents!!!

 London discovered bubble wrap!!

 Here is Hudson checking out what he had in his stocking:

 Jason trying his hand at the Barrel of Monkeys game (I have to say, I'm pretty good at this game!):

My beautiful Mommy!  She always makes everything so special for everyone! 

 Hudson playing with his new Space Station. 

 He is thinking, "I LOOOOVVVVEEE CHRISTMASSSSSSS!!!!":

 London playing with her first doll house.  She was all about it!

 Here she is modeling her new headband and playing with her shape elephant (she is surprisingly good at getting the shapes into toys like this!)! 

 My Daddy-o!  I teased him because his job was to pick up the wrapping paper and open all of the toys from their crazy packaging...and he was very serious about it!  No piece of wrapping paper could be on the floor for longer than 2 seconds!  hehe!  Love you! : )

 And finally, FASTER than a speeding bullet!  More POWERFUL than a locomotive!  Able to LEAP tall buildings in a single bound!  LOOK! Up In The Sky!  It's a BIRD!  It's a PLANE!  It's SUPERMAN!  If Jason read the blog he would probably kill me for posting this picture.  But he doesn't so...post away I go!  haha!!  He LOVES his new Superman jammies!  He has been envious of all of Hudson's super hero jammies so I found him some of his own!!